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Moral letters to Lucilius
The Epistulae morales ad Lucilium is a collection of 124 letters which were written by Seneca the Younger at the end of his life, during his retirement, and written after he had worked for the Emperor Nero for fifteen years.
Translated by Richard Mott Gummere
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/
(These Moral Letters are also the same letters which Tim Ferriss promotes in the Tao of Seneca)
Notes:
“Why is it that folly holds us with such an insistent grasp? It is, primarily, because we do not combat it strongly enough, because we do not struggle towards salvation with all our might; secondly, because we do not put sufficient trust in the discoveries of the wise, and do not drink in their words with open hearts; we approach this great problem in too trifling a spirit”
“What hinders us most of all is that we are too readily satisfied with ourselves”
“Thus it follows that we are unwilling to be reformed, just because we believe ourselves to be the best of men”
“Each man, according to his lot in life, is stultified by flattery”
“if you seek joy in the midst of cares, these objects for which you strive so eagerly, as if they would give you happiness and pleasure, are merely causes of grief.”
“applause and the popularity of enthusiastic approval which are gained, and atoned for, at the cost of great mental disquietude”
“Reflect, therefore, on this, that the effect of wisdom is a joy that is unbroken and continuous …You have, then, a reason for wishing to be wise, if the wise man is never deprived of joy. This joy springs only from the knowledge that you possess the virtues. None but the brave, the just, the self-restrained, can r..